The other day the girls and I were at a play date with another family who has four little girls. Yes, seven little girls all ranging in age from 9 – 1 playing together harmoniously! As any busy mother does, she was multi-tasking with laundry. She would fold and then toss into a basket. I noticed that each basket has a daughter’s name on it and I thought that was brilliant! So, we stopped by Walmart on the way home from the play date and got three white baskets for under $4 each and my girls now have their own laundry baskets!
I used a red Sharpie to draw the names on the baskets and when they are not in use, they stack easily on my washer! When I am folding, I simply add item to the basket. When the kids and I take their baskets to their rooms, we sort and put them away that way!
I also try to do a load or two a day. Towels and sheets Monday, my clothes Tuesday, each girl another day. I try to have one or two days with no laundry. It never works. But the important thing is I TRY!
Now, I have to figure out how to get their closet in shape. They all have dressers right now but I am thinking organizational cubes might be better. Then they can stack stuff instead of cramming stuff into drawers! Plus it opens up so much room for other things too! I’ll be sure to reveal the entire closet when I am done later this weekend!
How do you organize and keep up with your laundry and kids closets? I would love to hear your tips! I am always looking for better ideas that are easy to emulate and share with my readers! Leave your links to organizational posts below!
Omg, I’ve never thought about this simple fix. Thank u, I have 3 girls, a little boy, and a hubby to do laundry for and this idea would do the trick!
It had been such an amazing help to me!!
I might try this. I do a small load every night of the girls clothes. I’d rather do that than tackle the big loads a few times per week. We fold the clothes in the morning, and then stack them on the stairs. They take them up and put them away. But maybe the basket idea will help organize it even more…. ;)
I really like it and if I do get behind, it makes it easier too :)
We have always done the laundry with each person’s name on a basket. We did this growing up also.
What a genius idea and so simple. It would make it so much easier.